Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1916 — SOW MORE SEED [ARTICLE]

SOW MORE SEED

The quantity of seed wheat to sow to the acre should be varied according to size of kernel, condition and fer tiilty of seedbed and time of seeding. From six to eight pecks per acre gave the best results In experiments totaling 33 years at the Ohio, Kentucky. Indiana, Illinois, Kansas and Oklahoma experiment stations. The tendency among most growers is to use too little rather than too much seed. The Ohio Experiment Station says: "We have commonly found the better qualify" oif grain where the amount of seed required tojproduce |he maximum crop had been used; and where land was not occupied with wheat to its full capacity of production, the product has been of inferior quality. Similar results were reached, whether the wheat was grown upon rich, gravelly, alluvial soil or upon a clay soil inferior in natural productiveness.”